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No Water Day Four, and Why Kalyn Won't be Posting Recipes for a Few Days

What's a food blogger to do when it's day four without water, every dish in the house is dirty, no way to wash them, and there's a big hole in the lawn where the water meter used to be? Take photos of course. Here's part of what's been going on around here the last four days.

Much, much, much thanks to my wonderful brothers Mark and Dave and my brother-in-law Kelly who spent the last two days at my house trying to figure out what was wrong (after two days of trying to thaw the pipe with an electrical charge didn't work.) Also thanks to Rand who sent financial and moral support from California. I cannot adequately express how blessed I feel to have such a wonderful, supportive family who would pretty much do anything they could to help me..

Since my entire life has been completely disrupted by this little act of nature, I may not be posting any recipes for a few days. I'll be back as soon as I can.

(Edit, Monday morning. I finally had water by Sunday evening and am getting things cleaned up. It's a long story, but my main water line was frozen where it goes under my sidewalk and there were some rubber fittings where the line had been repaired which kept the electrical current from thawing the line. Thanks to Ulrike from Kuchenlatein who has agreed to switch weeks with me and host Weekend Herb Blogging this week while I get my life back in order! Send your entries to ostwestwind AT yahoo DOT de. If you would like a photo to be included, send her a photo either 100 X 75 px or 100 X 100 px when you send the link. These should be sent by 3:00 Sunday, Utah time.)

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22 comments:

Thanks for not showing us a picture of your bathroom!! :DSeriously, it's unbelievably disrupting, not only to your day-to-day dealings, but to your state of mental health. You are one of the strongest people I know, however, and there you are surrounded by all those helpful men...Hang in there, baby. (I won't talk about my week -- week! -- without electricity; dead of winter; dark, dark, dark... wahh.)Kisses.

Well goodnight! Kalyn, your pictures bring back memories of the flood in my kitchen, the caved in ceiling, no stove etc, etc. But no running water and all that camotion. We don't really appreciate how fragile our modern convieniences are and how really vital to our sense of order.I am so sorry.I am glad you are warm and have great family.It will end and there will be water! It has to happen.Hugs for all.

Kalyn, I was going to offer some moral support when I read the post but as I see you now have water ... YAAAYY!! You have been soo strong these past few days. Kudos! Just think of it as a early spring cleaning LOL!

What a horrid ordeal! I'm glad to hear water is back, but I know what a chore it is to get things back to normal! Thank goodness for the helpful people in our lives. I've a few friends who've helped me in a pinch too!

Yeah, been through similar doings and a few worse. We did no water, then the sewer snapped.

I kinda enjoyed it. The ideas you come up with to make life nicer that moment, the ways you find to circumvent the situation, the love that shows up at your doorstep, day after day how you impress yourself with ways of making it 'work' without our normal routines. It tests your mettle and when you come out, you own its soul. Now you are Queen and can handle it. No water? You can do that!Bring on the failre, Biggles is ready.

Looks like my kitchen I we have water! bad luck. Hope it come back on soon. Funnily enough as soon as I wash my hair we usually get cut off because the pipes in our stret are old and the earth is moving because of the drought.

Well I am pleased to hear that you survived! If I had faced that I would have likely borrowed a bucket or 6 of water to clean up what was around at the time - and spent the rest of the week eating else where!

Oh, my, Kalyn. I am so sorry for you disrupted life! Believe me, I know what it's like. We lose power every winter and since our water comes from a well in the creek at the bottom of a hill and has to be pumped up to holding tanks, when we lose power, we don't have water. You have my complete sympathy!

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